Milk-bottle receiver



March 25, 1924. 1,487,752.

W. MOLENAAR MILK BOTTLE RECEIVER Filed March 1, 1923 ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 25, 1924.

" if? E i MILK-BOTTLE RECEIVER.

Application filed March 1, 1923.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM MoLnNAAa, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and'State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Bottle Receivers, of which the following is a specification.

Thisinvention relates to receivers, asfor milk bottles, designed to be self-locking against removal of the article placed therein except by means over which an authorized person has control. The principal object is to provide areceiver of this class in which the depositing and locking of the article therein requires the simplest kind of manipulation and in which the article will be completely secured against removal or access thereto except only in the way intended.

In the drawings,

Fig. l is a front elevation, partly broken away, of the first form;

Fig. 2 a vertical sectional view thereof; and

Figs. 3 and a sectional views of details 011 the lines 33 and H in Figs. 1 and 2, respectively.

a is a rectangular vertically elongated shell which is open at thetop and also at the front, but is closed at the bottom and back and both sides. The top opening 6 extends clear to the front from a flange 0 projecting forwardly and horizontally from the top of the back wall, and the front opening d extends from a cross-strip e at the top to a flange f which upstands from the bottom. The front opening is adapted to be closed by a door 9 which is swung, on a horizontal axis, from a hinge h suitably attached to the cross-strip e and said door. The shell and door and a certain top closure to be described are all preferably formed of sheet metal, as galvanized iron; the sheet material indicated at- 2' is paper or the like serving as a heat insulation medium. The door at its lower end has a key-operated lock j whose bolt j when extended is adapted to take against the inside of the flange f. The side edges of the door are preferably lapped rearward, outwardly of the sides of the shell, as indicated at g in Figs. 1 and 2, to prevent inser ion of any implement for prying it open.

The mentioned top closure, 7a, which is rectangular and of about the area of the shell a and has depending flanges 70 at its two sides and front which lap the sides and front of the Serial Ho. 622,007.

shell when the closure is in depressed or closingposition, is connected with the back -of the shell at the top by a hinge Z; it is provided at the front with a handle m. To suit able fittings 01, attached to the closure are pivoted on a horizontal axis the upper ends rup member are arranged to move in guides 9 (see Fig. l) which are secured to thesides of the shell and bridge said legs. WVhe-n the closure is in open position the stirrup is held by the guides in the inclined position indicated in Fig. 2, but when the closure is depressed the stirrup is allowed to assume a nearly upright position.

To the back of the shellis secured a set of bottle stops; each of these is a. piece of stout sheet metal having one end 1 bent over at a right. angle, the setin laminated arrangement being securedto the back wall of the shell so that their bent-over ends, which form the stops proper, stand at different heights. Said ends preferably have the form shown in Fig. 3. The three stops '1- which are closest together are designed to take care of quart bottles supposed to be but not actually being exactly a certain height; the fourth or lowermost stop 1" is designed to take care of pint bottles. To the back and bottom of the shell is also secured a plate 8 inclined downward and forward.

To deposit and lock a bottle or equivalent article A in the receiver the closure is ele-' vated, thereby raising the stirrup. Thebottle is then introduced through the top opening 1) and seated on the stirrup, whereupon it will tilt backward against the flange 0 and its weight will force the closure to closed position. As the bottle descends, since it has no point of underneath support except on cross-piece 0 forward of its center of gravity, its head or top wipes against one or more of the stops 1" (according to its height) and when the closure is in the fully closed position the bottle head takes under one of the stops and so prevents upward or opening movement of the closure, so that the bottle is completely inaccessible except through the opening 03 which is assumed to be closed by the (locked) door 9. If the bottle should slip 0-1? the stirrup it would still be supported by the plate 39. The inclined plate 8 serves both to keep the bottle held forward on the stirrup during the descent and also to prevent its being jarred off the stirrup as by a person knocking against the front or door of the shell.

In Fig. 1 t is a screened ventilation openmg.

It is not indispensable that the device he provided with an attached door as g or 10; that is to say, such a door may be omitted when, as has heretofore been proposed in this art, the shell is secured to the jamb of a house doorway or the like and the house door itself is made to serve as a closure for the front opening of the shell.

' Having thus fully described my invent-ion, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is L In combination, a shell having a top opening, a closure for said opening, and a supporting stirrup for the article to he received movable with the closure in the shell downwardly and upwardly as the closure is moved to closed and open position, respectively, the shell having laterally thereof a stop arranged to stand above the article when the stirrup is depressed and thereby lock the closure against opening movement and the stirrup affording underneath support t0 the article only at a point thereof relatively oppositethe stop whereby the article will bear laterally against the stop in descending with the stirrup.

2. In combination, shell having a top opening, a removable closure for said opening, and a. supporting stirrup for the article to be received movable with the closure in the shell downwardly and upwardly as the closure: is moved to closed and open position, the shell having means to confine the articlesupporting part of the stirrup to up and down movement in a path at one side of the shell and also a stop at the other side of the shell arranged to stand above the article when the stirrup is depressed and thereby lock the closure against opening movement 8. In combination, a shell having a top opening, a closure for said opening, and a supportin stirrup for the article to be received movable with the closure in the shell downwardly and upwardly as the closureis moved to closed and open position respectively the shell having at one side thereof a stop arranged to stand above the article when the stirrup is depressed and thereby lock the closure against opening movement and the stirrup having the article supporting portion thereof arranged to support the article in tilted position under the stop when the stirrup is fully depressed and the shell having under the stop a surface inclined downwardly toward the relatively opposite side of the shell and against which the bottom portion of the article is adapted to hear when the stirrup is fully depressed.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

WILLIAM MOLENAAR. 

